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China: Decoding the New Chinese Export Control Law
The recent couple of years have been a compliance roller coaster ride for businesses with supply chains involving China. China went on a major legislative revamp and rolled out a series of new laws, including the new Export Control Law (ECL) of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), which came into force on 1 December 2020. In our past client alerts, we wrote about the status of the implementation of the ECL and the principles that form the backbone of the ECL.
China - PRC Ministry of Commerce announce Export Control Internal Compliance Guidelines | Lexology
China’s Export Control Law (“ECL”) came into effect on 1 December 2020, providing a framework to a series of separate administrative regulations on export controls issued prior to the law’s enactment.
Singapore Tightens Strategic Goods Controls | Lexology
Singapore
August 31 2020 In brief Singapore updated its strategic goods control regime on 3 August 2020 to ensure robust administration of controls and effective risk assessments, while ensuring the facilitation of legitimate trade. Key amendments include ensuring individual and bulk permit holders have access to English translations for strategic trade records kept in other languages.
Singapore Tightens Strategic Goods Controls | Lexology
Singapore
August 17 2020 Singapore updated its strategic goods control regime on 3 August 2020 to ensure robust administration of controls and effective risk assessments, while ensuring the facilitation of legitimate trade. Key amendments include ensuring individual and bulk permit holders have access to English translations for strategic trade records kept in other languages. For bulk permit holders, expanded document categories under recordkeeping requirements and monthly reporting will apply.
Updates to China’s Draft Export Control Law - What You Need to Know
On 28 December 2019, the National People’s Congress (NPC) of the People's Republic of China (PRC) released a new draft of the Export Control Law (ECL) ("2019 Draft"), an update from the 2017 version circulated by the Ministry of Commerce. The 2019 Draft is now open for public comment until 26 January 2020. If enacted, the ECL will be China’s first comprehensive and consolidated export control legislation, aimed at upgrading the country's existing regime consisting of multiple regulations.
Free Trade is Not on Hold in Asia
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was hailed as a visionary trade deal — connecting economies across the world as far as Japan and Chile, and pushing forward high standards on labour and the environment and removal of non-tariff barriers to trade. Yet political developments have meant the TPP as agreed cannot be implemented. President Trump announced the withdrawal of the United States from the TPP in January 2017.
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